R help - Jun 2009 - How to force R to print 2 decimal places in column of a data.frame?

How to force R to print 2 decimal places in column of a data.frame? I tried to
do so:

x = inp(format(rounf(inp$Tamanho, 2), nsmall = 2),)

where "INP" is data.frame and "Size" is the name of column.
But has error:

Error in eval.with.vis(expr, envir, enclos) : 
  could not find function "inp"

Lesandro


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On Jun 11, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Lesandro wrote:
>
> How to force R to print 2 decimal places in column of a data.frame?  
> I tried to do so:
>
> x = inp(format(rounf(inp$Tamanho, 2), nsmall = 2),)
>
> where "INP" is data.frame and "Size" is the name of
column. But has
> error:
>
> Error in eval.with.vis(expr, envir, enclos) :
>  could not find function "inp"
>
> Lesandro


Your code and description above appear to have some typos in it and  
the use of the round() and format() functions are not what you want  
here.

You code has inp(...), where R is presuming that you are referring to  
a function called 'inp', hence the error message, since the function  
does not exist.

Better to use sprintf() with an appropriate format specifier:

set.seed(1)
vec <- rnorm(10)

 > vec
  [1] -0.6264538  0.1836433 -0.8356286  1.5952808  0.3295078 -0.8204684
  [7]  0.4874291  0.7383247  0.5757814 -0.3053884

 > sprintf("%.2f", vec)
  [1] "-0.63" "0.18"  "-0.84" "1.60" 
"0.33"  "-0.82" "0.49"  "0.74"
  [9] "0.58"  "-0.31"

See ?sprintf for more information.  Note that the presumption here is  
that you want to output the numeric values to a formatted character  
vector for display purposes, perhaps in a table, etc.

So if your actual data frame is called 'INP' and the column is called  
'Size', you would use:

   sprintf("%.2f", INP$Size)


HTH,

Marc Schwartz

Hi Marc Schwartz,

Your suggestion solved my problem.

Thanks you.

--- Em qui, 11/6/09, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com> escreveu:
> De: Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com>
> Assunto: Re: [R] How to force R to print 2 decimal places in column of a
data.frame?
> Para: "Lesandro" <lesandrop at yahoo.com.br>
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Data: Quinta-feira, 11 de Junho de 2009, 15:45
> 
> On Jun 11, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Lesandro wrote:
> 
> > 
> > How to force R to print 2 decimal places in column of
> a data.frame? I tried to do so:
> > 
> > x = inp(format(rounf(inp$Tamanho, 2), nsmall = 2),)
> > 
> > where "INP" is data.frame and "Size" is the name
of
> column. But has error:
> > 
> > Error in eval.with.vis(expr, envir, enclos) :
> >? could not find function "inp"
> > 
> > Lesandro
> 
> 
> 
> Your code and description above appear to have some typos
> in it and the use of the round() and format() functions are
> not what you want here.
> 
> You code has inp(...), where R is presuming that you are
> referring to a function called 'inp', hence the error
> message, since the function does not exist.
> 
> Better to use sprintf() with an appropriate format
> specifier:
> 
> set.seed(1)
> vec <- rnorm(10)
> 
> > vec
>  [1] -0.6264538? 0.1836433 -0.8356286?
> 1.5952808? 0.3295078 -0.8204684
>  [7]? 0.4874291? 0.7383247? 0.5757814
> -0.3053884
> 
> > sprintf("%.2f", vec)
>  [1] "-0.63" "0.18"? "-0.84"
"1.60"? "0.33"?
> "-0.82" "0.49"? "0.74"
>  [9] "0.58"? "-0.31"
> 
> See ?sprintf for more information.? Note that the
> presumption here is that you want to output the numeric
> values to a formatted character vector for display purposes,
> perhaps in a table, etc.
> 
> So if your actual data frame is called 'INP' and the column
> is called 'Size', you would use:
> 
> ? sprintf("%.2f", INP$Size)
> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Marc Schwartz
> 
> 

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